Isola Jones (born December 27, 1949) is an American mezzo-soprano opera singer.
[1] After college, she joined the Chicago Symphony Chorus and was the understudy for Yvonne Minton the Verdi Requiem in 1975.
During the next two years, she sang in Der Fliegende Holländer in Chicago and in Porgy and Bess in Cleveland.
The title role in the opera, Guadalupe, Our Lady of the Roses, was written for Jones, who wrote one of the arias.
[1] The opera was composed by James DeMars of Arizona State University, and its recording was nominated in four categories for the 2010 Grammy Awards.